Pollock Mayor Jerome Scott stands in the courtyard of the Foster home, which has been converted to the town's municipal building.

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A home that was once the center of events in Pollock again will be a place where people gather.

The house was built in 1913 by the Foster family of Pollock. He was a wealthy banker and she was a school teacher. The couple raised their children in the home and entertained some of Louisiana's heaviest hitters, by turn-of-the-century standards.

But, after decades of setting empty, the abandoned home fell into disrepair. The couple's two children didn't want to sell it, but they didn't want to live in it either. ...